5 Gyres - Understanding Plastic Pollution Through Exploration, Education, and Action

We're back in LA, after an incredible 3 week voyage across the Indian Ocean aboard the Stad Amsterdam, with scientists, filmmakers, and artists. We've now seen plastic pollution in 3 out of the 5 major subtropical gyres.

We'll be posting videos, photos, and stories over the next few weeks. Meantime, the short version: we found plastic in every one of our trawls, which became increasingly trashed as we approached Mauritius.

We collected 12 samples, and the crew will continue trawling for us on their way to Cape Town, using a high speed trawl he fashioned at sea. We call it the "Flying Dutchman".